Monday, January 18, 2010

Beach House's devastating new full-length, Teen Dream, comes out next week on Sub Pop. It's been quite a while since we've felt this immediately affected/enthralled by an album -- Person Pitch comes to mind -- and the incredibly nuanced, heartachingly gorgeous Teen Dream continues to reveal itself further with each listen (the record also confirms our theory that Victoria Legrand is basically our generation's Nicks and McVie). The album comes with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the record, each by a different director. We're honored to be premiering a different video from the Teen Dream DVD in this space every day this week, each for one day only, thanks to Beach House + Sub Pop. "Lover of Mine," directed by Sean Honey, is up first:

Mmm. It's nice enough but I do tire so of journalistic hubris. It's hardly worth of McVie and Nicks, so let's calm down.

Incidentally, I saw Beach House suppporting Fleet Foxes last year, and it struck me that they really don't have enough songwriting chops to go the distance. Perhaps that's changed with this album, but on this evidence, it doesn't look like it.